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away with many draughts and other forms of medicine 
given internally. 
It is very certain that support and tonics constitute impor- 
tant elements in the treatment of pleuro-pneumonia. The 
sulphate of iron has even been thought a specific. Lepona of 
Turin published some interesting cases, in the Turin Veterinary 
Journal for 1854, in which he used cinchona and sulphate of 
quinine. The usual outcry, when drugs of this kind are 
spoken of, is, that they are too expensive ; but when, in each 
case that Lepona treated, the expense amounted on an 
average to between £l and £l 10,$., considering the value of 
the animals, the sum could only be looked on as very mode- 
rate ; and if the medicine should really surpass all others in 
efficacy, this is no weighty objection to its employment. 
Lepona prescribes a drachm of sulphate of quinine in a quart 
of decoction of cinchona. The decoction is made with three 
ounces of the bark to a quart of water. This dose is given 
daily ; and when the respiration is very laboured, with, appa- 
rently, the uniform result of giving relief. Three or four doses 
suffice to bring the animals into a convalescent state. In 
incipient cases, Lepona bleeds, blisters, gives tartar emetic, 
and attends to the comfort of the animals. It has been 
observed, that the blisters and setons have given rise to 
tumefaction and suppuration after the second or third day. 
Such manifestations have been looked on as critical and 
favorable. 
Laryngitis in the Ox. — Rinquet, veterinary surgeon in 
the Canton of Dordogne in France, relates the history of this 
disease, which was enzootic in his district during the autumn 
of 1854. Frequent as it is in the horse, it has been rarely 
witnessed in the ox. it was seldom fatal, but inspired fear 
from the loud roaring noise, which was its prominent and 
sometimes only symptom. The head was generally pro- 
truded, but often there was no impediment to deglutition, 
and not even cough or pain on pressure to the larynx. It 
was seen in working oxen, and these sometimes roared only 
when at the plough. It would sometimes pass off* in two or 
three days, or else become chronic. In one case Rinquet 
observed suppuration to supervene. It had been mistaken 
for pneumonia. The animal looked anxious, the head was 
protruded ; the submaxillary lymphatic glands were swollen 
and tender ; there was a painful cough, and purulent matter 
cutaneous effusion, and very rapid relief of the lungs. The skin is never 
denuded of hair, as might be supposed, if due care be taken, although the 
poultices remain on three and four hours. 
